Finance Contract Job Trends in England

Financial
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Finance in contract job vacancies in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Finance over the 6 months leading up to 16 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 2 2
Rank change year-on-year -1 0 -1
Contract jobs citing Finance 8,098 5,718 7,164
As % of all contract jobs in England 18.90% 23.15% 19.13%
As % of the General category 34.67% 35.99% 33.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,162 3,822 4,986
10th Percentile £358 £350 £363
25th Percentile £447 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £565 £588
Median % change year-on-year -2.65% -3.83% -2.08%
75th Percentile £675 £703 £725
90th Percentile £800 £825 £838
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 194 102 244
10th Percentile £15.23 £18.20 £12.82
25th Percentile £18.75 £24.75 £15.13
Median hourly rate £35.00 £40.25 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +43.75% +0.07%
75th Percentile £54.17 £65.81 £38.12
90th Percentile £85.00 £78.31 £56.25
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £39.06 £27.50
% change year-on-year -10.38% +42.02% -5.14%

All General Skills
England

Finance falls under the General Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring general skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for general skills 23,357 15,887 21,415
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 54.51% 64.33% 57.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,249 10,227 13,684
10th Percentile £313 £281 £281
25th Percentile £413 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £520 £533
Median % change year-on-year - -2.35% -3.18%
75th Percentile £638 £640 £650
90th Percentile £749 £763 £775
UK median daily rate £514 £503 £525
% change year-on-year +2.29% -4.29% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,625 755 1,829
10th Percentile £14.22 £13.29 £12.88
25th Percentile £18.75 £16.95 £15.50
Median hourly rate £32.50 £28.00 £31.97
Median % change year-on-year +16.07% -12.42% +6.57%
75th Percentile £63.75 £53.75 £52.78
90th Percentile £81.77 £75.00 £67.50
UK median hourly rate £32.00 £27.97 £30.83
% change year-on-year +14.41% -9.26% +0.93%

Finance
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Finance relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

Finance job vacancy trend in England

Finance
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Finance.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Finance

Finance
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Finance in England over the 6 months to 16 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Finance in England

Finance
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Finance.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Finance

Finance
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Finance in England over the 6 months to 16 June 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Finance in England

Finance
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Finance within the England region over the 6 months to 16 June 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London 0 4,861 £575 -4.17% 3,066
North of England +2 1,269 £493 +6.43% 788
South East -1 672 £500 -4.31% 925
North West +5 669 £465 +3.33% 436
Midlands 0 637 £500 +8.70% 466
Yorkshire 0 551 £525 +10.53% 271
West Midlands +1 460 £514 +2.80% 278
South West -2 374 £525 - 338
East of England 0 196 £513 -8.89% 218
East Midlands -1 172 £469 +8.44% 186
North East -16 50 £500 +13.64% 90
Finance
UK

Finance
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 289 (3.57%) Confluence
2 202 (2.49%) SharePoint
3 76 (0.94%) Apache Spark
4 59 (0.73%) Apache Airflow
5 46 (0.57%) Microsoft Exchange
6 44 (0.54%) Apache
7 27 (0.33%) SAS
8 25 (0.31%) CMS
9 21 (0.26%) Oracle Workflow
10 15 (0.19%) CICS
11 13 (0.16%) Appian
12 12 (0.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 12 (0.15%) IIS
13 11 (0.14%) Camunda
13 11 (0.14%) Ethereum
14 10 (0.12%) Jupyter
15 6 (0.074%) HCL Notes
15 6 (0.074%) Hyperledger
15 6 (0.074%) Mendix
15 6 (0.074%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 446 (5.51%) Microsoft Excel
2 179 (2.21%) Microsoft Office
3 158 (1.95%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 145 (1.79%) Microsoft Project
5 105 (1.30%) MS Visio
6 51 (0.63%) Spreadsheet
7 34 (0.42%) Chatbot
8 4 (0.049%) Oracle Smart View
8 4 (0.049%) Sketch
8 4 (0.049%) Trello
9 3 (0.037%) Notion
10 2 (0.025%) Adobe Illustrator
10 2 (0.025%) Adobe XD
10 2 (0.025%) AutoCAD
10 2 (0.025%) InVision
10 2 (0.025%) Photoshop
11 1 (0.012%) MicroStation
11 1 (0.012%) UserZoom
11 1 (0.012%) UXPin
11 1 (0.012%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 295 (3.64%) SAP S/4HANA
2 105 (1.30%) NetSuite
3 95 (1.17%) Oracle Payables
4 81 (1.00%) Oracle Receivables
5 80 (0.99%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 69 (0.85%) Oracle ERP
7 41 (0.51%) Dynamics CRM
8 40 (0.49%) Oracle EBS
8 40 (0.49%) Oracle General Ledger
9 37 (0.46%) Aladdin
9 37 (0.46%) SAP FI
10 34 (0.42%) Oracle Financials
11 32 (0.40%) SAP CO
12 30 (0.37%) SAP FI/CO
13 27 (0.33%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
13 27 (0.33%) Unit4 Business World
14 23 (0.28%) SAP BRIM
15 21 (0.26%) Oracle Assets
16 20 (0.25%) SAP ERP
17 19 (0.23%) Oracle EBS R12
Cloud Services
1 1,297 (16.02%) Azure
2 927 (11.45%) AWS
3 566 (6.99%) Power Platform
4 399 (4.93%) GCP
5 282 (3.48%) SaaS
6 278 (3.43%) Azure DevOps
7 260 (3.21%) Microsoft 365
8 207 (2.56%) GitHub
9 189 (2.33%) Dynamics 365
10 159 (1.96%) Snowflake
11 151 (1.86%) Entra ID
12 134 (1.65%) Serverless
13 104 (1.28%) Amazon S3
14 102 (1.26%) Power Automate
15 98 (1.21%) OCI
16 96 (1.19%) Azure Data Factory
17 83 (1.02%) OpenShift
18 82 (1.01%) dbt
18 82 (1.01%) Microsoft Copilot
19 78 (0.96%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 146 (1.80%) Firewall
2 123 (1.52%) Network Security
3 68 (0.84%) DNS
3 68 (0.84%) VPN
4 57 (0.70%) WAN
5 56 (0.69%) TCP/IP
6 37 (0.46%) BGP
7 32 (0.40%) HTTP
7 32 (0.40%) LAN
8 30 (0.37%) DHCP
9 29 (0.36%) SSL
10 26 (0.32%) OSPF
11 25 (0.31%) Multicast
12 23 (0.28%) MPLS
13 22 (0.27%) SD-WAN
14 21 (0.26%) Cisco ASA
15 19 (0.23%) VSAN
16 17 (0.21%) Internet
16 17 (0.21%) VLAN
17 16 (0.20%) DMZ
Database & Business Intelligence
1 487 (6.01%) Power BI
2 227 (2.80%) SQL Server
3 218 (2.69%) Data Warehouse
4 158 (1.95%) PostgreSQL
5 148 (1.83%) Metadata
6 140 (1.73%) Relational Database
7 126 (1.56%) Tableau
8 122 (1.51%) Data Lake
9 86 (1.06%) NoSQL
10 73 (0.90%) Oracle Reports
11 66 (0.82%) Big Data
12 62 (0.77%) Oracle Database
13 55 (0.68%) BigQuery
14 47 (0.58%) MongoDB
15 44 (0.54%) Power Query
15 44 (0.54%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 42 (0.52%) Delta Lake
16 42 (0.52%) Snowflake Schema
17 38 (0.47%) Azure SQL Database
18 35 (0.43%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 601 (7.42%) JIRA
2 196 (2.42%) Git
3 147 (1.82%) Jenkins
4 88 (1.09%) GitLab
5 51 (0.63%) JUnit
6 44 (0.54%) Cucumber
7 33 (0.41%) Selenium
8 28 (0.35%) Sonatype Nexus
9 27 (0.33%) MLflow
10 26 (0.32%) Postman
11 24 (0.30%) Visual Studio
12 23 (0.28%) SonarQube
13 20 (0.25%) REST Assured
14 18 (0.22%) Maven
15 16 (0.20%) ERwin
15 16 (0.20%) Zephyr
16 15 (0.19%) TeamCity
17 14 (0.17%) Hudson
18 13 (0.16%) Bitbucket
19 12 (0.15%) Mockito
General
1 2,351 (29.03%) Social Skills
2 1,508 (18.62%) Banking
3 1,058 (13.06%) Analytical Skills
4 451 (5.57%) Public Sector
5 353 (4.36%) Legal
6 330 (4.08%) Financial Institution
7 314 (3.88%) Investment Banking
8 293 (3.62%) Front Office
9 267 (3.30%) Retail
10 264 (3.26%) Organisational Skills
11 195 (2.41%) Documentation Skills
12 190 (2.35%) Influencing Skills
13 152 (1.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 139 (1.72%) Local Government
15 134 (1.65%) Manufacturing
16 129 (1.59%) Law
17 124 (1.53%) General Ledger
18 123 (1.52%) Marketing
19 120 (1.48%) Billing
20 119 (1.47%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 1,183 (14.61%) Analyst
2 920 (11.36%) Senior
3 850 (10.50%) Lead
4 823 (10.16%) Developer
5 767 (9.47%) Architect
6 628 (7.76%) Project Manager
7 600 (7.41%) Business Analyst
8 519 (6.41%) Consultant
9 317 (3.91%) Solutions Architect
10 279 (3.45%) Data Engineer
11 213 (2.63%) Senior Manager
12 194 (2.40%) Financial Analyst
13 170 (2.10%) Data Analyst
14 169 (2.09%) Finance Manager
15 168 (2.07%) Accountant
16 166 (2.05%) Java Developer
17 159 (1.96%) Senior Developer
18 156 (1.93%) Software Engineer
19 153 (1.89%) Programme Manager
20 151 (1.86%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 243 (3.00%) .NET
2 239 (2.95%) REST
3 233 (2.88%) React
4 227 (2.80%) Kafka
5 186 (2.30%) Oracle Fusion
6 173 (2.14%) Middleware
7 143 (1.77%) Spring
8 142 (1.75%) Spring Boot
9 121 (1.49%) RESTful
10 104 (1.28%) Redux
11 100 (1.23%) PySpark
12 97 (1.20%) Node.js
13 86 (1.06%) AngularJS
14 74 (0.91%) JSON
15 73 (0.90%) OAuth
16 68 (0.84%) XML
17 60 (0.74%) CSS
18 58 (0.72%) Pandas
19 55 (0.68%) HTML
20 54 (0.67%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 377 (4.66%) Onboarding
2 345 (4.26%) Product Ownership
3 335 (4.14%) Cloud Native
4 228 (2.82%) Legacy Systems
5 197 (2.43%) Management Information System
6 180 (2.22%) Data Structures
7 156 (1.93%) Fixed Income
8 154 (1.90%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 151 (1.86%) Derivative
10 143 (1.77%) Data Protection Act
11 141 (1.74%) Distributed Systems
12 135 (1.67%) Data Centre
13 119 (1.47%) Equities
14 114 (1.41%) Virtual Team
15 102 (1.26%) Greenfield Project
16 97 (1.20%) Public Cloud
17 93 (1.15%) AI Agents
18 89 (1.10%) Analytical Mindset
19 87 (1.07%) Self-Motivation
20 77 (0.95%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 285 (3.52%) Windows
2 253 (3.12%) Linux
3 133 (1.64%) Unix
4 62 (0.77%) Windows Server
5 38 (0.47%) Windows 10
6 37 (0.46%) Solaris
7 31 (0.38%) Apple iOS
8 30 (0.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 27 (0.33%) Android
10 25 (0.31%) zOS
11 21 (0.26%) Mac OS
12 17 (0.21%) AIX
13 7 (0.086%) Oracle Linux
14 6 (0.074%) Ubuntu
14 6 (0.074%) VMS
14 6 (0.074%) Windows Server 2012
15 5 (0.062%) HPUX
15 5 (0.062%) SUSE
15 5 (0.062%) Windows Server 2019
16 4 (0.049%) MVS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,713 (21.15%) Stakeholder Management
2 1,672 (20.65%) Agile
3 1,142 (14.10%) Migration
4 1,046 (12.92%) Problem-Solving
5 933 (11.52%) Continuous Improvement
6 876 (10.82%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 874 (10.79%) DevOps
8 835 (10.31%) AI
9 834 (10.30%) CI/CD
10 806 (9.95%) ERP
11 799 (9.87%) Analytics
12 723 (8.93%) Project Management
13 718 (8.87%) Decision-Making
14 681 (8.41%) Roadmaps
15 678 (8.37%) Data Modelling
16 670 (8.27%) Validation
17 618 (7.63%) Business Intelligence
17 618 (7.63%) User Acceptance Testing
18 592 (7.31%) Change Management
19 535 (6.61%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 1,125 (13.89%) SQL
2 990 (12.23%) Python
3 558 (6.89%) Java
4 358 (4.42%) C#
5 232 (2.86%) JavaScript
6 226 (2.79%) TypeScript
7 183 (2.26%) PowerShell
8 82 (1.01%) C++
9 73 (0.90%) PL/SQL
10 72 (0.89%) Bash
11 66 (0.82%) T-SQL
12 64 (0.79%) Go
13 55 (0.68%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 53 (0.65%) Shell Script
15 42 (0.52%) Scala
16 40 (0.49%) VBA
17 30 (0.37%) Bicep
18 29 (0.36%) Apex Code
19 28 (0.35%) Kotlin
19 28 (0.35%) Rust
Qualifications
1 671 (8.29%) Degree
2 625 (7.72%) Security Cleared
3 450 (5.56%) SC Cleared
4 213 (2.63%) ACCA
5 210 (2.59%) PMP
6 188 (2.32%) CIMA
7 179 (2.21%) PMI Certification
8 156 (1.93%) BPSS Clearance
9 137 (1.69%) CISSP
10 126 (1.56%) Computer Science Degree
11 82 (1.01%) DV Cleared
12 81 (1.00%) Master's Degree
13 80 (0.99%) CISM
14 76 (0.94%) Azure Certification
15 60 (0.74%) Cisco Certification
16 46 (0.57%) Microsoft Certification
17 43 (0.53%) AWS Certification
18 37 (0.46%) (ISC)2 CCSP
19 32 (0.40%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
20 29 (0.36%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 500 (6.17%) Data Quality
2 362 (4.47%) QA
3 308 (3.80%) PMO
4 285 (3.52%) GDPR
5 159 (1.96%) NIST
6 134 (1.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 112 (1.38%) IFRS
8 97 (1.20%) SLA
9 89 (1.10%) GRC
9 89 (1.10%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 73 (0.90%) Accessibility
11 63 (0.78%) PCI DSS
12 61 (0.75%) GAAP
13 56 (0.69%) ISO 20022
14 35 (0.43%) NCSC
15 34 (0.42%) SEPA
16 33 (0.41%) PSD2
16 33 (0.41%) Solvency II
17 30 (0.37%) IFRS 17
18 27 (0.33%) SOC 2
System Software
1 262 (3.24%) Docker
2 164 (2.03%) Active Directory
3 52 (0.64%) VMware Infrastructure
4 28 (0.35%) vSphere
5 26 (0.32%) Virtual Machines
6 22 (0.27%) Virtual Desktop
7 15 (0.19%) VMware ESXi
8 14 (0.17%) VMware NSX
9 11 (0.14%) Hyper-V
10 10 (0.12%) NFS
11 9 (0.11%) RACF
12 6 (0.074%) GPFS
12 6 (0.074%) KVM
13 5 (0.062%) Microsoft App-V
14 4 (0.049%) Oracle RAC
15 3 (0.037%) GridGain
15 3 (0.037%) SRDF
16 2 (0.025%) ACF2
16 2 (0.025%) HDFS
16 2 (0.025%) IAG
Systems Management
1 365 (4.51%) Kubernetes
2 236 (2.91%) Terraform
3 126 (1.56%) Ansible
4 78 (0.96%) Grafana
5 68 (0.84%) Prometheus
6 63 (0.78%) Microsoft Intune
7 50 (0.62%) SCCM
8 37 (0.46%) Single Sign-On
9 24 (0.30%) Control-M
10 19 (0.23%) FortiGate
11 18 (0.22%) vRealize
12 16 (0.20%) Progress Chef
13 14 (0.17%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 14 (0.17%) Nessus
14 13 (0.16%) AirWatch
14 13 (0.16%) Argo
15 12 (0.15%) Jamf Pro
16 11 (0.14%) CASB
16 11 (0.14%) Puppet
17 9 (0.11%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 1,044 (12.89%) Microsoft
2 670 (8.27%) Oracle
3 647 (7.99%) SAP
4 279 (3.45%) ServiceNow
5 246 (3.04%) Databricks
6 203 (2.51%) Salesforce
7 183 (2.26%) Google
8 115 (1.42%) Workday
9 109 (1.35%) VMware
10 107 (1.32%) Splunk
11 95 (1.17%) Cisco
12 88 (1.09%) CyberArk
13 84 (1.04%) IBM
14 63 (0.78%) Citrix
14 63 (0.78%) OpenAI
15 54 (0.67%) Ariba
15 54 (0.67%) Sage
16 51 (0.63%) Bloomberg
17 44 (0.54%) IFS
18 43 (0.53%) Informatica